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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Northern papers of July 4th have been received. They contain not one word from Sherman, and nothing official from Grant. Gold, in New York, on the 2d, was quoted at 235: From the army in Virginia. An army correspondent, near Petersburg, writes Saturday, July 2d, that day has been one of more than ordinary activity with the rebels.--About daybreak, says the writer, they were discovered moving in solid columns on both sides of the Appomattox. The meaning of the movement cannot be determined. Col C. J. Campbell, who left City Point for Washington on Thursday last, reports that his regiment is lying within one mile of Petersburg, and his men in the rifle pits are close enough to hear bricks fall when an occasional shell strikes the chimneys of the houses in the city. Wilson's cavalry raid. A letter dated Bermuda Hundred, July 1--P M, says Gen Wilson and Kants's cavalry have just returned from their recent raid, having destroyed twenty-five miles of the Danv
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ont. [Fifth Dispatch.] Chattahoochee, July 6. --There has been very little skirmishing to day. The enemy is cautiously feeling his way. They yesterday burnt the paper mills at Roswell. A Yankee Major and ten privates were brought in this evening. [Sixth Dispatch.] Chattahoochee River, July 6. --All quiet this morning. The enemy yesterday burnt the dwelling at the Junction of the Atlanta and Decatur Road. Some prisoners were brought in last evening, among them Lieut. George Scott, of the 10th Indiana. [Seventh Dispatch.] Chattahoochee River, July 7. --With the exemption of occasional skirmishing and shelling by our batteries on the east bank of the river, at Turner's ferry, responded to by those of the enemy opposite, all is quiet along the lines. Among the prisoners brought in to-day are Col Sherman, Gen. Howard's chief of staff, and his orderly. The Colonel was captured by our pickets while making a reconnaissance of our lines and works.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Gold at the North. (search)
t. No particulars of the damage to citizens except negro stealing. The clothing and negroes, regardless of sex, was carried off by the Yankee force. Many of the citizen are left without a single servant. No damage was done to the railroad or telegraph. [Fourth Dispatch.] Clinton, July 4, (via Mobile, July 7th.) --The steamer Iago, loaded with cotton, was captured and burned by our troops in Arkansas river. All registered enemies remaining in New Orleans are ordered to report to the Provost. Marshal to be sent beyond the lines. Delegates have left New Orleans for the Chicago Convention. One hundred men, deserters from the Yankee army, have been arrested on their way to Mexico to join the Mexican army. Gen Canby is organizing a force of 3,000 men, either to reinforce Sherman or advance and threaten Mobile and Demopolis. The steamer Louisiana Bell, a Government transport, had been burnt on the Levee near New Orleans. Gold 235; cotton 160.